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  • Top new artists
  • Top jazz albums so far in 2026
  • Track choice
  • Live reviews
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  • Top jazz albums so far in 2026
  • Track choice

Month: October 2025

Top left, Tom Ollendorff at Livingston then clockwise with Aaron Parks, James Maddren and Conor Chaplin. Photo: via Dynamic
This just in

Where in the World Featuring Aaron Parks – New From Tom Ollendorff This Autumn

News on an upcoming new album from guitar shooting star Tom Ollendorff

Bymarlbank17 October 2025
Billy Hart
Reviews

Billy Hart, Multidirectional, Smoke Sessions

Brimful of grace - a parallel running to Just - grasped live, immerse yourself in some of these Multidirectional delights ahead of release.

Bymarlbank16 October 2025
Reviews

Chris Byars Sextet, The Dark Forest, SteepleChase

Bebop lives!

Bymarlbank14 October 2025
Reviews

Alessandro Iachini Quintet, Here and Now, Fresh Sound New Talent

Selling points? The presence of Logan Richardson and a version of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington's 'Isfahan' eases us into getting to know the sound...

Bymarlbank14 October 2025
Reviews

Harper Trio, Dialogue of Thoughts, Little Yellow Man Records

A play on the celestial blues journeying beyond the confines of spiritual jazz

Bymarlbank13 October 2025
Album of the WeekReviews

Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble, Groove In The Face Of Adversity, Mack Avenue

Introducing the new album of the week

Bymarlbank12 October 2025
Reviews

Alice Milburn, First Expressions

Scat is Pompey singer Alice Milburn's forte

Bymarlbank12 October 2025
Reviews

Alex Hitchcock, Letters From Afar, New Soil

Recorded in New York and Amsterdam.

Bymarlbank11 October 2025
Live reviews

Joe Webb trio at the Green Note

An act that's making great strides

Bymarlbank9 October 2025
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Welcome note

Thanks for visiting. Not opening time just yet. But what's next, you may well wonder beyond a bit of a recce to see Banjo Paddy playing to dancers down the alley locally very possibly. Look out for the podcast on Monday - lives return in September. Sunday listening is a very decent new number ever so wisely interpreted from Cambridge scene singer the highly more-ish Myles Sanko, 'Slow Down.' SG

Baggy playlist

Track of the year in 2026

Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr | marlbank article
Playing EFG London Jazz Festival in the autumn. Click the pic for the venue link and more gen about it
Track choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr – Amazing Grace

MORE READING have a gander at my review of Lizz & travelling band fam in tow in the agreeably louche surroundings of what was the Soho Revue Bar - formerly the Raymond Revuebar - run in Streatham period Jazzwise long home to the mag in 2008 before moving to Herne Hill five years later. Jazzwise will be 30 years old in late March 2027. Her Lizzness' take on Led Zep's 'Thank You' that night was the ultimate jaw dropper. Recorded version above. It was far better live - that long lost night saw the audience totally unprovoked by cheerleaders or fooled by any showbiz artifice adoring what she had just sung. Oh to have a bootleg to try to recreate the memory even more than what I noted down and can recall. But whatever: you have to let it linger.

"You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand" - Bob Dylan

Track choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing GraceTrack choice: Lizz Wright and Kenny Banks Sr - Amazing Grace24 August 2026marlbank
Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their elementKurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element28 August 2026marlbank
Top jazz albums so far in 2026Top jazz albums so far in 202623 August 2026marlbank

"It took me years to write, will you take a look?" - Paul McCartney

  • Carla Bley classic Lawns streams drawn from Andy Sheppard trio’s Salt Catchers
  • Punkt. Vrt. Plastik, Kompress, Intakt ****
  • Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets are in their element
  • The sound of Tony Bennett and Bill Evans touched upon by Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson and Marc Copland
  • What’s on

“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later” - Miles Davis

Live: Count Basie Orchestra directed by Scotty Barnhart feat. Gunhild Carling, Ronnie Scott’s, Soho ****

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